Wednesday, July 09, 2014

PLUS: Scoring A Sponsored Wedding; How to Speak Like a Leader; What "Brand" Means in 2014; Apple: Why The Cash Issue Is So Important; In Defense of Taking a Mid-Career Life Gap Year ; 3 Rules for Rule Breaking; 3 Things to Do Right After a Failure; The “Dot” and the Word That Follows it and How To Write Intro Emails That Get Responses

How often do you meet someone really interesting at an event or connect with someone you’d like to get to know or do business with on LinkedIn or Twitter? Do you have a strategy for following up with them and engaging them in...

No more hesitation, the moment of truth has come and now it’s all about your imagination and GoDaddy’s domain search saying the magical words: Good news, this domain is available. If you already did this, you will understand...

See what a domain name can become! We are pleased to announce that Citrix Sharefile was positioned as a Leader in the 2014 Gartner Enterprise File Sync and Sharing Magic Quadrant. Get the report here: http://bit.ly/1xMTdcU

You’ve failed. Perhaps it was a big project. Perhaps it was a simple daily task. But it didn’t go as planned and you are facing the reality of your blunder. What do you do? Here are 3 immediate steps: Don't justify. It is...

In any business, there are “rules” – traditions and expectations that most accept as true. But I have found that most rules are due for a good strong challenge. Since I was a young man, I have found that many improvements can...

More than a year ago, I decided to jump ship. Perhaps more accurately, I decided to do a free fall dive (without a parachute... A.K.A. quitting without another job prospect lined up). Some people thought I was crazy and...

During my time contributing to Seeking Alpha, there is no name that I have covered more than Apple (AAPL). When it comes to Apple, the company's products obviously are the most important item, but Apple's financial...

At an earlier publication I said that the brand is "the representation of a perceptible object transformed into memorable concepts by a perceiving subject." In another blog, I simplified this concept, saying the brand is "the...

Much of what we view as the foundation of marketing and advertising is a result of the work of people like David Ogilvy, often referred to as the "Father of Advertising." It was a pleasure this morning to come across a post by...